O ne in ten young people in Scotland find life meaning-less and believe they have no future. This is not sur-prising when you look at

the conditions we face. Hundreds of thousands have left education this summer facing a struggle to secure a job or a place at university or college. The politicians are trying to make us pay for the economic crisis and deficit created by bailing out the greedy bankers. . The Tories and Lib Dems in Westminster, the SNP in the Scottish Parliament and councils across the country are implementing cuts to our public serv ices. Universities and colleges are making huge cuts to courses and places. School budgets are being cut with teachers losing their jobs and pupils losing out on education provi-sion. Across Britain nearly one mil-lion young people are unemployed. One in five 16-24 year olds in Scot-land claim unemployment benefit, here the youth employment rate is twice that of the rest of Britain. Thou-sands of young people are being forced into slave labour work pro-grammes. Private companies are making profits from young people working for their poverty level bene-fits with no guarantee of a job at the end. None of the main parties have a solution to youth unemployment and all of their policies use young people as cheap labour.

Unless we fight back the politi-cians and their friends in big business will ruin our lives and deny us the opportunities they had. In Greece, Spain and across Europe we have seen young people and workers take to the streets against cuts and austerity. In Britain, on June 30, millions of public sector workers took strike action against attacks on pensions, mass strikes could also take place this autumn. Last winter students revolted against edu-cation cuts and tui-tion fees. Youth Fight for Jobs in Scotland links up the struggles of young people in education, the work-place and communi-ties. We play a lead-ing part in the univer-sity student move-ment against cuts and in campaigns

like Students Defending Dundee Schools which organised a school student strike involving hundreds against Dundee council’s education cuts. We work with young trade un-ionists and support strike action taken by workers to defend jobs and ser-vices. Alongside the Scottish Anti Cuts Alliance we aim to build a mass campaign against the cuts and at-tacks that we face.

No to mass unemployment!

Fight ALL cuts!

The attacks on jobs coming from the governments in Westminster, Holy-rood and local councils coincide the 75th anniversary of the Jarrow Cru-sade. In 1936 200 unemployed men marched from Jarrow to London in protest at the lack of job opportunities and the dire conditions they were living in. We face the same questions today. Young people are now in a fight to defend the gains in rights and living conditions that have been made by the working class in the 75 years since the march. Youth Fight for Jobs will be recreat-ing this march from October 1st. We want the march to become a rallying point for unemployed youth, trade unionists, students and community

campaigners who want to stop the ConDemolition wrecking balls being taken to out jobs and services. As we go through towns and cities, we want to hold huge anti-cuts demonstrations and protests. We want to have meet-ings, rallies and demos in support of the march all over the country. The movement of university and school students at the end of last year showed that young people are ready to fight for our futures, we now need to bring all young people into that struggle to defeat the ConDem government and its brutal austerity agenda, we want to show this gov-ernment that we wont pay for a crisis caused by big business and fat cat bankers.